TEDxHampshireCollege - Jay Smooth - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race
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Jay Smooth is host of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightful and humorous suggestions for expanding our perce... Read more
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Jay Smooth - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jay Smooth is host of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightfu...
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Jane Couperus - Attending To Difference
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jane W. Couperus, associate professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at Hampshire College, pursues research of the development of attention, learning, memory, and their neurological substrates. In this talk, she discusses our awareness of difference, how it helps us and how it may hinde...
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Betsy Hartmann - Beyond Apocalypse and Back to Earth
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Betsy Hartmann, professor of development studies and director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, is a longstanding activist in the international women's health movement. She writes, speaks, and teaches on the intersections between international population, migration, ...
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Jim Ferrell - Resolving the Heart of Conflict
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)James Ferrell is a managing partner and founding partner of The Arbinger Institute. He is the author or coauthor of several bestselling books, including Arbinger's international bestsellers, Leadership & Self-Deception and The Anatomy of Peace. In this talk, Jim discusses the heart of conflict a...
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Chuck Collins -- Taxing the Wealthy
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Hampshire College alum Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good. In this talk, Chuck discusses an economic and moral rationale for increasing taxes on the wealthy. http://www.hampshire.edu/
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Jay Vogt - The Art of Facilitation: Changing the Way the World Meets
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Hampshire College alum Jay W. Vogt founded Peoplesworth, a private practice in organizational development, in 1982 and he has facilitated thousands of meetings and retreats since. Jay is the author of Recharge Your Team: The Grounded Visioning Approach and Board Roles to Board Goals: Creating an ...
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Saleem Ali - Humanizing Environmental Ideas
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxHampshireCollege - Saleem Ali - Humanizing Environmental Ideas: How Cautious Consumerism is Essential for Planetary Citizenship Saleem H. Ali is professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the director of the In...
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- -: TEDxHampshireCollege - Sarah Mullens - The Continuum Hypothesis: A Biography
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sarah Mullens is a 4th year student at Hampshire College working on her Div III (senior thesis) in mathematical logic. In this talk, Sarah discusses how mathematics, which we think must be based in absolute scientific truths, is in fact always in a state of flux. She argues this by tracing the ...
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